Books tagged: Action & Adventure
Festival Man
By Geoff Berner
Maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette makes a final destructive bid for glory at the Calgary Folk Festival.
Travel in the entertaining company of a man made of equal parts bullshit and inspiration, in what is ultimately a twisted panegyric to the power of strange music to ... Read more
Hooker & Brown
By Jerry Auld
Shortlisted for the 2009 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Set in the Canadian Rockies, Hooker & Brown is an evocative adventure story about one man’s quest to put to rest a historical mystery. While reading a history book of the area, Rumi—a trail crewman in the ... Read more
Immortal Water
By Brian Van Norman
Immortal Water is an extraordinary tale of the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon and a retired history teacher, Ross Porter. In parallel, interlaced plots both men suffer life altering crises. As age steals away their powers they obsess in a quixotic search for the mythical ... Read more
Incident at Willow Creek
By Don Hunter
After her mother's death, Liz Thomas inherits the key to a bank lockbox containing the official government documents of Camp 10, a prisoner-of-war camp located in the sleepy town of Willow Creek, AB during World War II. As Liz desperately attempts to piece together reports on ... Read more
Ivory Black
By Brian Duren
In 2005, after four months in hospitals, Dick Rayburn returns home with a limp, a disfigured face, and pain. Around tense conversations between him and his wife, Valerie, concerning their absent son, Jamie, the narrative weaves memories triggered by objects in the house. An ... Read more
La Chance des Irlandais
By Frédéric Latreille
"La Chance des Irlandais," est le premier volume d'une série qui s'intitule "Les Chroniques du Canal Lachine. " Ce roman suit les tribulations d'Eamon Jovanovski, un artiste en herbe de descendance irlandaise, qui se lie d'amitié à l'âge de seize ans avec un certain Tom ... Read more
Last Hummingbird West of Chile
By Nicholas Ruddock
***IPPY AWARDS: LITERARY FICTION – BRONZE***
An audacious tale of murder, privilege, and servitude - of both humans and nature.
A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird West of Chile spins a tale of adventure that is in turn comedic, violent, poignant and ... Read more
Les Chroniques du Canal Lachine: La Loi de Murphy
By Frédéric Latreille
La Loi de Murphy, le deuxième épisode des Chroniques du Canal Lachine, suit Tom Murphy essayant de faire face aux évènements tragiques du précédent roman ainsi qu'à sa nouvelle renommée en tant qu'écrivain. Ce dernier tente de se débarrasser de ses tendances autodestructrices ... Read more